Question

阅读理解。

Do you know how to tell a story? The following are some tips:

Who Will Listen?

Will you tell your story to people of your own age? Will they be friendsor young people you haven’t met before? Perhaps you will tell it to younger children, or will it be an audience of adults? Will it be just a few people, a small group, or a large audience?

Why Are You Telling It?

There are many reasons for telling a story. Knowing why you are telling it may be the most helpful reason in choosing a story for a particular audience.

Many storytellers choose tales just to entertain(娱乐). They tell jokes or silly stories. Others want to teach something, such as how to be kinder to animals, the environment, or other people. One storyteller likes to encourage his listeners to try new things. Some babysitters tell stories to help children not to be afraid of thunder, lightning or frightening shadows in their rooms. Others want to make people think or to help people remember. Some like to frighten their audience with ghost (鬼) stories.

Where Will You Speak?

How you tell your story and what story helpers you use will depend on where you will be speaking. Will you be talking at an evening party, in your classroom, in a library storytelling program, at a family dinner, at a museum, or at a storytelling festival?

1.The passage is mainly about ___________.

A. the audience to whom you tell stories

B. the situation where you can tell a story

C. the reasons for telling a story

D. important tips for telling a story

2.The author shows his ideas by ______.

A. description                B. listing questions

C. making comparisons         D. reciting

3.The purpose of knowing why you are telling a story is to ____________.

A. decide what helpers you need

B. do something good to animals, the environment or other people

C. choose stories suitable (合适的) for certain audience

D. satisfy different listeners

4.What decides how you tell your story according to the passage?

A. The place where you will tell your story.

B. The type of the story you will tell.

C. The purpose of telling your story.

D. What kind of people you will tell your story to.

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.C

4.A

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要介绍了讲故事的一些要点和技巧。

1. 主旨大意题。根据文章第一句Do you know how to tell a story?可知，本文主要介绍讲述一个故事的一些要点和技巧，故选D。

2. 推理判断题。根据文中The following are some tips以及下文的每个问题是开端，可以知道，作者通过问题的形式讲述了这些建议，故选B。

3. 细节理解题。根据第三段第二句Knowing why you are telling it may be the most helpful reason in choosing a story for a particular audience.可知，讲故事要针对针对特定的人或者特定的目的讲，故选C。

4. 细节理解题。根据文中最后一段How you tell your story and what story helpers you use will depend on where you will be speaking.可知，在哪里讲故事影响了要讲什么故事与怎么讲这个故事，故选A。

考点：考查技巧类短文阅读。